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From: ahby@meccts.UUCP (Shane P. McCarron)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: Suggestions solicited for printer and WP software for Apple ][
Message-ID: <241@meccts.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 23:08:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 14 23:08:52 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 16-Oct-85 04:48:59 EDT
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Reply-To: ahby@meccts.UUCP (Shane P. McCarron)
Organization: MECC Technical Services, St.Paul, MN
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Summary: 

In article <776@decwrl.UUCP> binder@dosadi.DEC (No matter where you go, there you are.) writes:
>There still aren't a whole lot of WPs around for the Apple ][ and // machines 
>that are better than Applewriter.  For a ][+, Applewriter ][, and for a //e or 
>//c, Applewriter 2.0 would be my recommendations.  

Although Applewriter is a pretty powerful word processor, I find it
much harder to use than AppleWorks.  The word processor within
AppleWorks has most of the features found in Applewriter, but is more
friendly and easier to understand.  The interface is very intuitive -
you just sort of type and things happen.

The printer interface is by far the best I have seen in any product
for the Apple.  It knows about all sorts of printers and cards, but if
you have one which isn't there, you can define a custom printer and
give it all the special codes it needs.  Also, AppleWorks has a database 
and a spreadsheet built in.  For my personal use, I find the spreadsheet 
to be useful - It would probably even be powerful enough for a small 
business.

All in all, AppleWorks is an excellent package.  It only functions on
the //e, //e+, and //c - but that's what most Apple owners have
anyway.

-- 

Shane P. McCarron
Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation - Technical Services

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